refutor: this was more than just a world championship...this was a tournament between all the world correspondence champions since the mid 60s. timmerman is the current world correspondence champion, umansky is the champion of champions ;)

<To celebrate the 50th anniversary of ICCF, a golden collection of all the living correspondence world champions was assembled. To tempt the champions to play, a prize fund of 25,000 Euros (roughly $29,000) was established. From the fifth world champion, Hans Berliner, who came out of 25 years of retirement, to the 15th and current world champion, Gert Timmerman, all accepted.

A champion of champions has emerged. Mikhail Umansky has won the star-studded ICCF 50 Year World Champions Jubilee Tournament with a phenomenal 7-1 score (two draws).

[...]

GAME OF THE MONTH

Facing eight of the world’s best, Umansky played for the win in every game. Here is how he defeated the Number 1 world-ranked Hans Berliner.>

zanzibar: Might as well also mention that the Site tag for correspondence games shouldn't be "?" but a variant of "corr".

The exact choice being a topic for regularization.

@t 80020,80029,80040,80055

use these Site tags:

<corr Wch1, Correspondence, Correspondence, corr ICCF>

I do like mentioning the sanctioning body in the Site tag (i.e. the last example), but that's just me (+ one other).

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